In a blog post, Alooma’s co-founders, Yoni Broyde & Yair Weinberger, wrote: “We believe that as part of Google Cloud — bringing together the best-in-class data migration and integration services — we can make our customers and partners even more data-driven and successful.

“Alooma has always aimed to provide the simplest and most efficient path toward standardizing enterprise data from every source and transforming it into actionable intelligence.

“Joining Google Cloud will bring us one step closer to delivering a full self-service database migration experience bolstered by the power of their cloud technology, including analytics, security, AI, and machine learning.”

Amit Ganesh, Vice President, Engineering at Google, and Dominic Preuss, Director, Product Management at Google Cloud Platform also wrote a blog post commenting on the acquisition.

“The addition of Alooma, subject to closing conditions, is a natural fit that allows us to offer customers a streamlined, automated migration experience to Google Cloud, and give them access to our full range of database services, from managed open source database offerings to solutions like Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable.

“This simplified migration path also opens the door for customers to take advantage of all the technologies we have to offer, including analytics, security, AI and machine learning."

Google has launched a new €10mn ($11.21mn) grant to support European organisations which are working to keep people safer online.

The technology giant will use the new grant fund – the Google.org Impact Challenge on Safety – to support nonprofits, universities, academic research institutions, and other organisations that are working to tackle hate, extremism and

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